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Post by Zapp Brannigan on Feb 6, 2011 23:07:35 GMT -5
Use this thread to make book recommendations, discuss our favorite books from the past, and talk about our most anticipated works of the future.
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Post by myapprooingjacket on Feb 7, 2011 1:24:23 GMT -5
A little ways into American Pastoral by Phillip Roth. A little slow moving so far, but still well written.
Kinda just anxious to get through this one so I can get to my next Ron Rash read.
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Post by nodepression on Feb 7, 2011 1:28:31 GMT -5
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hummingbird
Upstart In A Blowout
You Can Haz, Pretty Lady
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Post by hummingbird on Feb 9, 2011 1:19:04 GMT -5
^^^Wow!
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Post by Zapp Brannigan on Feb 9, 2011 1:28:23 GMT -5
Haha, wild. I need to start reading something. I don't really have a ton of time to get invested in something, so I might just go with some Klosterman. I have only read IV, so might as well go with Sex, Drugs, And Cocoa Puffs.
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hummingbird
Upstart In A Blowout
You Can Haz, Pretty Lady
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Post by hummingbird on Feb 9, 2011 1:35:53 GMT -5
Oh Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs is wildly funny, witty, brilliant, relevant, entertaining....I could continue to add adjectives here but I think you get the point. Pop culture satire at its best.
You will not be disappointed, but I'm sure you know that already.
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hummingbird
Upstart In A Blowout
You Can Haz, Pretty Lady
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Post by hummingbird on Feb 9, 2011 2:16:12 GMT -5
Top 5 books I read last year
The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath (I'm so attracted to the wounded) A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again -David Foster Wallace (Ditto) Guns, Germs and Steel-Jared Diamond Just Kids-Patti Smith (yes THE Patti Smith! About her relationship with her equally amazing companion, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe) The Lovely Bones--Alice Sebold (<sigh>, I know it's become cliched and the movie was like an LSD trip, but, having lived in a similiar place of grief, I was moved by the book).
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Post by karosko on Feb 9, 2011 9:23:13 GMT -5
A little ways into American Pastoral by Phillip Roth. A little slow moving so far, but still well written. Kinda just anxious to get through this one so I can get to my next Ron Rash read. Dude...Philip Roth is one of my favorite authors ever, easily. American Pastoral is a masterpiece, as is Goodbye, Columbus. LOVE him. Huge inspiration on Jewish contemporary lit stars like Michael Chabon.
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Post by karosko on Feb 9, 2011 9:25:21 GMT -5
I also need to read some Klosterman. People go out of their way ALL THE TIME to tell me I'd be really into Klosterman. One good friend of mine even says the way I talk reminds him of how Klosterman writes, haha.
I think that's the only reason I've been kind of avoiding him, because I know that if I start reading, there will be no looking back and I'll become obsessed for the next few weeks. Who's got the time for an obsession, I've got school work and work work to do!
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hummingbird
Upstart In A Blowout
You Can Haz, Pretty Lady
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Post by hummingbird on Feb 9, 2011 9:58:13 GMT -5
So I've been reading more about this book, The Breast. And I think it is next on the list. Thus, I offer you your first exaltation Nodepression. Cha-ching!
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ntrt
So Fresh, So Clean
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Post by ntrt on Feb 9, 2011 17:32:53 GMT -5
Guns, Germs and Steel-Jared Diamond I've heard great things about this book. Thanks for reminding about it -- I bought it, but hadn't had a chance to read it, and this might be good time to get it off the bought-but-not-read shelf.
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garageland
Tiny Dancer
Town Drunk
why did we have to go and destroy it
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Post by garageland on Feb 14, 2011 7:05:30 GMT -5
Revisiting Rimbauds Season In Hell/The Drunken Boat.
Forgot how much I love him.
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Post by jackson on Feb 14, 2011 14:43:20 GMT -5
I'm on David Foster Wallace's short stories and essays right now. Consider the Lobster & A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. So good.
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hummingbird
Upstart In A Blowout
You Can Haz, Pretty Lady
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Post by hummingbird on Feb 14, 2011 15:36:51 GMT -5
I still have to finish Consider the Lobster. Infinite Jest took sooooo long to get through, I had to take a break from him for a little while. He is brilliant, but getting through his books can be a formidable task, as his works are rather dense.
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Post by jackson on Feb 28, 2011 21:45:50 GMT -5
I'm working through Infinite Jest now. I love the style. Everytime he starts to lose me on a 200 word sentence, he brings back by throwing in a fuck at the end. Beautiful.
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